Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Andrew Welsh is water utilities director at Xylem UK. Smart meters are prominent in water companies’ 2025-2030 business plans, in line with regulatory expectations for large-scale rollouts. Smart meters are recognised as integral to water companies’ long-term water resource planning.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Water is one of our most precious resources. If we’re going to make sure there is enough water for future generations to live, we need a revolution in the way we think about and use water. Stefanie Woodward | Meta | Water Stewardship. SOPHIA LI: Water is one of the earth’s most precious resources.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2022

SKIP TO RANKING The age of incrementalism is over Twenty years after our first Best 50, a lot has changed for the better and a lot hasn’t. A lot has changed for the better in that time and a lot hasn’t. The average CEO of a large company is making out better than ever, too, taking home $5.6

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Sustainability Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The recent Aquanomics report by GHD clearly underscores the urgent need to take robust action to build water resilience and mitigate the frequency and potentially catastrophic impacts of these climate events. Australia’s water infrastructure is built for yesterday’s climate. A time to act. An environmental, social and economic lens.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. In the U.S. As the U.S.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Driven by the confluence of rapid population growth and the industrialization of societies across the globe, increased levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are contributing to consistently higher temperatures, melting icecaps, rising seas, and more frequent natural disasters that threaten our way of life on Earth.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 27, 2017

If energy efficiency has made it to the mainstream years ago, Greenbiz reported last year that some large companies are just getting more serious on conserving water, an increasingly critical commodity. Water is an important part of supply chain management as it is part of every business operation.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Enviva is the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets and is part of a rapidly growing industry in the U.S.

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3BL Media

JULY 6, 2022

Reflecting on the timeliness of the conference’s focus, Joanne Lebert, executive director, IMPACT, states: “Boldness is exactly what we need when tackling complex challenges such as supply chain transparency, market access for artisanal miners in high-risk areas, or sustainable and equitable programs in producer communities.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Eoghan Griffin | Meta | Sustainability Strategy Manager, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. I’ll be your guide as we reframe the way we talk about the climate, and understand the best courses of action to take together. SOPHIA LI: We have entered a new climate cadence. We’re doing this work, but we still have a long way to go.

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Gail Tverberg

MARCH 5, 2023

With these higher prices, producers will be able to extract more fossil fuels so the system can go on as before. When people forecast ever-rising energy prices, they miss the fact that market fossil fuel prices consider both oil producers and consumers. On average, they don’t satisfy either the oil producers or the consumers.

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Carlos Sanchez

APRIL 28, 2021

Purpose-driven companies aim to create value by positively impact the planet and society while producing profits. Institutional investors, asset managers and financial institutions increasingly request ESG data to understand how the company generates profits and benchmark its performance in material ESG themes with its peers.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

s CheckSammy Technologies, which offers business customers proprietary systems for mastering their junk removal, recycling and waste-management challenges. Together, these two lists point the way to an exciting new economy – and a changing future for Canada itself. New to the Future 50 this year, ElectraMeccanica, a B.C.-based

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. But then the fear gives way to a resounding sense of urgency and resolve. “I The climate crisis is solvable, and a better world awaits if we listen to the experts and cooperate.”

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2023

Thousands of years ago, civilizations leveraged cyclical flooding for irrigation , let the land “rest” (lay fallow) every seventh year , and used terraced farming to produce food sustainably for their people, as well as external trade and philanthropic support of the poor. Every single year, we're getting better.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. Historically, the private sector invested in research and development to produce world-changing innovations.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

And the beauty of this approach is that you can take this journey in different ways, just like we all arrived here today along routes and using different forms of transportation and from different directions. The private sector will take this journey in different ways and from different starting points. We know that.

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3BL Media

MAY 26, 2022

Consumers, investors, regulators, and employees are all increasingly demanding socially, environmentally, and economically responsible products and services that have been designed, produced, used, and recycled with circularity principles in mind. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws play a key role. Taking Responsibility.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2024

Looking back on a year when record-breaking wildfires effectively negated Canada’s entire carbon-reduction effort for 2023, the news wasn’t all grim: the pace of public funding for renewables continues to grow, and the market for wind and solar has been especially robust. Here are four trends to keep an eye on. ' In the U.S.,

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In this episode, we’ll speak to researcher John Cook and activist Jon Leland to unpack how we can better communicate about the climate—with skeptics and believers alike. I’ll be your guide as we reframe the way we talk about the climate, and understand the best courses of action to take together. I’m a product manager at Facebook.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

However, because of the impacts of climate change on the lands and waters in our territories, this annual bloom is no longer synchronized with the salmon’s journey up the rivers to spawn. One important way to reduce those emissions is to convert our cars to electric vehicles (EVs), particularly since the Canadian and U.S.

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3BL Media

JUNE 1, 2022

The fact is, a huge amount of the fruit and vegetables we take for granted never looked that way to begin with. Crop improvement was slow and produced random results, as genes interacted in unpredictable ways at the molecular level. Civilization and science have come a long way since then, but we face our own set of challenges.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

The result: a power-packed list of companies whose products and services bring bold new ideas to the sustainability front – and raise hopes that we can win the climate war. Innovation doesn’t work that way. But separating hydrogen from water, through a process called electrolysis, takes substantial energy. In Squamish, B.C.,

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Just Capital

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

JUST IN THE NEWS On CNBC ’s “Squawk on the Street,” senior correspondent Diana Olick discusses JUST’s latest analysis of corporate climate commitments and emissions data, highlighting the biggest emissions reductions were disclosed by Avangrid , Owens Corning , and Johnson Controls International.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

With natural gas representing a major source of methane emissions, Doug Baer, PhD, Global Product Line Manager for Laser Analyzers at ABB, looks at the role that accurate gas leak measurement can play in helping to ensure that the pledge’s methane reduction targets are met. Water main breaks that weaken roadways and pavement.

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B the Change

JANUARY 8, 2023

In the following conversation, he shares with me some of the ways in which the company has augmented its commitment to sustainability by incorporating international ESG (environmental, social, and governance) standards and applying for B Corp Certification. Where are the soybeans for Vitasoy produced?

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Invesco, Edentree, AXA IM, HSBC AM, Octopus, Brown Advisory, NEC, Tabula and Global Palladium Fund. Invesco has rebadged its Invesco UK Companies fund as the Invesco Sustainable UK Companies fund.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

My first encounter with mining came when I worked as a television news journalist for ITN in Moscow. We had spent the day in a dilapidated helicopter tracking the Trans-Siberian Express as it wound its way through the birch forests below us. Another says it is a pleasure to work in the place that will one day make the economy better.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts. I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. Zack Angelini, 29.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 8, 2022

But analysis by the non-partisan Energy Innovation think tank shows the overall package avoiding 24 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions for every tonne it permits from new oil and gas production, Inside Climate News reports. This is a very good deal for the climate.”. We’re once again a sacrifice zone.”.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Good news stories do not have the sensationalistic allure of dramatic prophecies of doom, but once you get past the dire headlines, there is a litany of overlooked achievements that tangibly illustrate progress. As reported by Euro News , a mega marine protected area (MPA) was created by Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, and Costa Rica in 2021.

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